ICO Hype Man Ian Balina Launches GoFundMe to Tackle SEC Lawsuit

ICO Hype Man Ian Balina Launches GoFundMe to Tackle SEC Lawsuit

Crypto influencer Ian Balina has launched a GoFundMe page to pay for his legal defense against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which earlier this month filed a lawsuit against him for…

Crypto Gaming Will ‘Bring 100 Million People Into Web3’: Framework Ventures Co-Founder

Crypto Gaming Will ‘Bring 100 Million People Into Web3’: Framework Ventures Co-Founder

The crypto market may be in its tenth month of the downtrend, but for Michael Anderson, the co-founder of Framework Ventures, this time represents possibly the best opportunity to invest in new startups…

Coinbase Cloud, Chainlink Launch Price Oracles for NFT Floor Pricing

Coinbase Cloud, Chainlink Launch Price Oracles for NFT Floor Pricing

Coinbase will introduce NFT floor pricing feeds via its Cloud service, allowing developers to access real-time NFT prices to create new DeFi applications like NFT lending markets and NFT indexes. The feature was…

Proof of Stake Risks Concentrating Power to Crypto Exchanges, Wallets: IMF

Proof of Stake Risks Concentrating Power to Crypto Exchanges, Wallets: IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) highlighted some potential issues surrounding a proof-of-stake (PoS) approach to blockchain infrastructure as part of a recent paper, making suggestions for a regulatory framework that could limit global…

‘Apple Must Be Stopped’ as Web2 Firm Launches 30% NFT Tax: Epic Games CEO

‘Apple Must Be Stopped’ as Web2 Firm Launches 30% NFT Tax: Epic Games CEO

Apple’s decision to let NFTs be bought and sold on App Store apps hasn’t received the kind of reception one might expect from Web3 proponents. That’s because the iPhone maker has decided to…

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Outrage as SEC Claims All Ethereum Transactions Happen in USA

This Week on Crypto Twitter: Outrage as SEC Claims All Ethereum Transactions Happen in USA

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt The price of Ethereum was reeling this week after predictions that the merge would be a “buy the rumor, sell the news” scenario largely played out. Over…

How Uniswap Is Taking Aim at Coinbase and Binance

How Uniswap Is Taking Aim at Coinbase and Binance

Decrypting DeFi is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) The DeFi sector’s largest decentralized exchange is embarking on a major expansion. In an interview this week at the Messari Mainnet conference in…

Bitcoin Mining Data Center Firm Compute North Files For Bankruptcy

Bitcoin Mining Data Center Firm Compute North Files For Bankruptcy

Compute North, a data center provider for cryptocurrency miners and blockchain companies, has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy at a Texas court, as energy costs spiral and the crypto market’s prolonged slump continues….

Ethereum Token Issuance Plummets 95% Following Merge

Ethereum Token Issuance Plummets 95% Following Merge

Ethereum’s (ETH) annual token supply change has dropped from 3.79% to 0.20% post-merge, per data from ultrasound.money. Following the network’s upgrade on September 15, Ethereum shifted from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to…

gm: Inside NFT Unicorn Magic Eden With CEO Jack Lu

gm: Inside NFT Unicorn Magic Eden With CEO Jack Lu

gm: Inside NFT Unicorn Magic Eden With CEO Jack Lu Magic Eden launched 1 year ago and already has a $1.6 billion valuation. It started as a marketplace only for Solana NFTs, but…

Microstrategy Stock Drops 6% Amid Latest M Bitcoin Buy

Microstrategy Stock Drops 6% Amid Latest $6M Bitcoin Buy

MicroStrategy’s stock dropped 6% at the opening bell on Tuesday after its executive chairman Michael Saylor announced the firm had purchased another 301 Bitcoin, totaling $6 million at the time of purchase.  The…

PGA Tour Golf NFTs Coming to Tom Brady’s Autograph Platform

PGA Tour Golf NFTs Coming to Tom Brady’s Autograph Platform

In brief Autograph, the NFT company co-founded by Tom Brady, will create official PGA Tour collectibles. The platform will launch in early 2023 and offer potential real-world perks for fans. The PGA Tour…

Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon: I Am Not ‘On the Run’

Terra Co-Founder Do Kwon: I Am Not ‘On the Run’

Earlier this week, South Korean prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon, the disgraced co-founder of the Terra ecosystem that crashed spectacularly in May; they also asked the finance ministry to void…

What Are Meebits? Metaverse-Ready NFTs From the Creator of CryptoPunks

What Are Meebits? Metaverse-Ready NFTs From the Creator of CryptoPunks

Launched in 2017, CryptoPunks were one of the earliest examples of an NFT crypto collectible; a series of 10,000 pixel-art profile pictures (PFPs) with randomized traits. They proved to be a runaway success,…

Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius Wants to Sell its M Stablecoin Holdings

Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius Wants to Sell its $23M Stablecoin Holdings

In the latest chapter of Celsius’ ongoing liquidity crisis, which first became public when the lender froze customer withdrawals in June, the bankrupt crypto lender has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the…

Ethereum Crashes Under ,500 as Price Falls After Successful Merge

Ethereum Crashes Under $1,500 as Price Falls After Successful Merge

In brief Ethereum’s price is down nearly 8% today, dropping below $1,500 for the first time in more than a week. The plunge comes following Ethereum’s successful merge, in which it shifted to…

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